Road Trip-Day II
We were up and at 'em early this morning...we got up at 4:00 AM and got ready. We met Dale and Brandy on I-20 at around 5:00 and we started on the final leg of our journey to Atlanta. We went straight to our hotel, Abdul's Moter Inn and Used Camel Dealership, to let them know that it would be late due to the race not starting until 3:00. On to the track! We got there at about 8:00 and set up the grill and I helped Dale put up his flag pole, Mark "Stiffie" Martin and a NASCAR Nation flag. Dale's dad started cooking breakfeast, while Dale and I went on up and got the tickets for todays Busch Race. We got tickets on row 12-12 rows from the fence at the finisg line! I was excited, such good seats, so close-closer than we actually wanted as you will see later. As we started back to where we parked and we saw all the cool stuff-the huge Crown Royal tent, the Dewalt display and the Oarnge County Chopper display was there. I hope the pictures turn out because they had the OCC Fireman Bike, the Jet Bike, the Blues Bike, the Mikey Bike, and the POW bike. TLC does not do them justice-truly beautiful machines. We went back and ate then hit the vendors-anything NASCAR related you could buy it here, we picked up a few goodies and did alot of walking. Word of advice-always pack your own drinks-a 20 oz. coke was $4.00. Finally lunch time, Dale grilled burgers and sausage and they were good. After cleaning up after eating it was time to go to the track!!
Man this is alot better of a track than Dega, it is cleaner, the racing is faster and not as jumbled up. We wound up sitting behind some relatives of the lady that was driving the no. 7 car, Beaudreaux's Butt Cream (how F@#*!#@ funny of a name). She is from Slidell, LA. and used to be the school principal there, I cannot remember her name, but she did good even though she had a few penalties and wound up a few laps down. Jimmy Johnson, Carle Edwards and Greg Biffle was awsome! They stayed in the front most of the day. THen about lap 140 or so a car, I am not even sure which one it all happened so fast, hit the wall in front of us and shattered his brake rotor. Now those of you that know Brandy, you know she is still recovering from injuries to her right leg she got during a horrible car wreck last year. She has to have broken a mirror because all of a sudden a piece of that shattered brake rotor came down and hit her on her right thigh. Now whats the odds of this happening? So off to the the First-Aid Station, and she wound up going to the emergency room by way off ambulance just to get checked out due to her other injuries. So we packed up took off the the hospital. We listened to the race on the radio on the way to the hospital. Hell yea Carl Edwards, to bad we missed it-we would have been able to get a great pic of his back flip on the Finish Line. So once at the ER, the PA came in and everything is OK, She now is the proud owner of a huge bruise and the NASCAR guy kept the piece that hit her and told them to call him in the morning when they get to the track. So here we are checking in at Abdul's, Hope and I went down to a quick stop down the street to pick up a few things. Now keep in mind I am sure that Atlanta is probably a nice town, but we are apparently in the arm pit. The whole time we were in this all night convenience store/Barber Shop the local O-G's were comparing their weapons, I now know that one guy in particular prefers a 9MM over a 380 because P-Diddy's body gaurd carries one and it leaves a bigger hole. So we exited stage left fast as hell. As we were leaving a guy walked right up to my window, if he only knew what was waiting on him on the other side-but thank God he kept walking a we hauled ass. So know here we are getting ready for bed and another BIG day at the races. More to come later!!
Man this is alot better of a track than Dega, it is cleaner, the racing is faster and not as jumbled up. We wound up sitting behind some relatives of the lady that was driving the no. 7 car, Beaudreaux's Butt Cream (how F@#*!#@ funny of a name). She is from Slidell, LA. and used to be the school principal there, I cannot remember her name, but she did good even though she had a few penalties and wound up a few laps down. Jimmy Johnson, Carle Edwards and Greg Biffle was awsome! They stayed in the front most of the day. THen about lap 140 or so a car, I am not even sure which one it all happened so fast, hit the wall in front of us and shattered his brake rotor. Now those of you that know Brandy, you know she is still recovering from injuries to her right leg she got during a horrible car wreck last year. She has to have broken a mirror because all of a sudden a piece of that shattered brake rotor came down and hit her on her right thigh. Now whats the odds of this happening? So off to the the First-Aid Station, and she wound up going to the emergency room by way off ambulance just to get checked out due to her other injuries. So we packed up took off the the hospital. We listened to the race on the radio on the way to the hospital. Hell yea Carl Edwards, to bad we missed it-we would have been able to get a great pic of his back flip on the Finish Line. So once at the ER, the PA came in and everything is OK, She now is the proud owner of a huge bruise and the NASCAR guy kept the piece that hit her and told them to call him in the morning when they get to the track. So here we are checking in at Abdul's, Hope and I went down to a quick stop down the street to pick up a few things. Now keep in mind I am sure that Atlanta is probably a nice town, but we are apparently in the arm pit. The whole time we were in this all night convenience store/Barber Shop the local O-G's were comparing their weapons, I now know that one guy in particular prefers a 9MM over a 380 because P-Diddy's body gaurd carries one and it leaves a bigger hole. So we exited stage left fast as hell. As we were leaving a guy walked right up to my window, if he only knew what was waiting on him on the other side-but thank God he kept walking a we hauled ass. So know here we are getting ready for bed and another BIG day at the races. More to come later!!
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